Do Animals Have Souls?
our connection with animals: Is it for real or is it something we just imagine? Pope Francis has made remarks that have been interpreted as suggesting that animals have souls and can go to heaven. His comments were seen as a departure from conservative Roman Catholic theology that traditionally held that animals cannot go to heaven because they have no souls. Pope John Paul II is reported to [...]
Sixfold Vision of Truth – Part 2…Continued (2)
St. Bonaventure reminds us of the life of St. Francis of Assisi That true godliness which, according unto the Apostle, is profitable unto all things, had so filled the heart of Francis and entered into his inmost parts as that it seemed to have established its sway absolutely over the man of God. It was this piety that, through devotion, uplifted him toward God; through compassion, transformed him [...]
Sixfold Vision of Truth – Part 2…Continued
natural powers According to the six stages of ascension into God, there are six stages of the soul’s powers by which we mount from the depths to the heights, from the external to the internal, from the temporal to the eternal–to wit, sense, imagination, reason, intellect, intelligence, and the apex of the mind, the illumination of conscience (“Synteresis”). These stages are implanted in us by nature, deformed by [...]
Why the Devil Hates Dogs
Animals give glory to god. Animals have a dignity inherent in themselves outside of humanity. They give glory to God simply by their existence, the Catechism says (CCC 2416). Animals and the rest of the created world "cannot be divorced from respect for moral imperatives" and we should have a "religious respect for the integrity of creation" (CCC 2415). One can love animals; one should not direct to them [...]
St. Francis Preached the Animals
St. Francis of Assisi Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis; 1181 or 1182 – 3 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, and mystic. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated [...]
wisdom was hidden in things from the foundation of the world
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